No - the music I decrypted *using my own key* is forever decrypted and plays on any MPEG-4-capable player. If Apple feels like being an thorn for intelligent non-cattle, by switching to a completely different form of DRM for which there would be no currently available cure, then I'll simply stop using iTMS until DVD Jon makes them red in the face again.
iTMS already has some strange design ideas behind it - why are the musical selections different for varying countries? I don't get it. I am a 1st generation European-American. As such, iTunes doesn't let me purchase Eiffel 65's Italian albums, which are clearly available to the Italian customers. Good luck finding anything foreign that hasn't been on the charts, although I am surpised I can find the majority of "Die Prinzen." Want something in Russian? Too bad, unless your tastes are dominated by TaTu (mine aren't).
Btw, dumpster diving pays off. Rummaging about derelict crap on the topmost floor of the engineering building at my Uni, yielded a replacement cord for my beloved Model M, extra key caps, and a spanking new Model 50 PS/2 (with a nearly failed disk).
I am pretty green when it comes to stuff like this, but looking at my card history, it seems that whenever you use your CC # or card somewhere, the retailer does not immediately get your money. Instead, the retailer becomes "authorized" to take your money. I noticed the actual withdrawals to happen happen as late as a week post-fact.
Waiting for my L train every day, everytime I see someone with headphones I realize they are listening music from the distinctive-white iPod earbuds. Maybe that's just Chicago.
Have fun proving that I am tearing apart someone else's binaries, on my own computer, for my own education. If the stuff never leaves my b0x, who is the wiser?
That's right./launches copy of SoftICE and IDA.
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Good post... but mentioning CNN and FOX as "factual" information was a bit of a stretch =D.
Simplistically: When you write a zero over a one, the value doesn't change to 0, but something like 0.1. When you write a 1 over a zero, the value doesn't change to a 1, but something like 0.9.
Thus using special hardware, they could technically recover not only data written previously... but data written onto the disk many times before that.
Real question - what does your ridiculous analogy have to with ME wanting to ensure that my ability to play the music I PAID FOR isn't at the whims of a corporate entity?
I have an ATAPI Samsung CDRW drive that recently started failing while performing OPC. The drive itself just zombifies and makes weird mechanical noises which don't go away when you remove the disk. At that point it doesn't detect media. However, turning the power off to it and back on brings it back to life and makes it useful.
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The part where you can only burn a protected AAC to a CD a fixed amount of times...
(Sorry, I was leading you, I know the answer).
So if the customer can't get the music he wants through legal means?
But why can't I as a customer subscribe to the other stores? Hell, I'll pay $1.99 a song if I have too, sheesh.
No - the music I decrypted *using my own key* is forever decrypted and plays on any MPEG-4-capable player. If Apple feels like being an thorn for intelligent non-cattle, by switching to a completely different form of DRM for which there would be no currently available cure, then I'll simply stop using iTMS until DVD Jon makes them red in the face again. iTMS already has some strange design ideas behind it - why are the musical selections different for varying countries? I don't get it. I am a 1st generation European-American. As such, iTunes doesn't let me purchase Eiffel 65's Italian albums, which are clearly available to the Italian customers. Good luck finding anything foreign that hasn't been on the charts, although I am surpised I can find the majority of "Die Prinzen." Want something in Russian? Too bad, unless your tastes are dominated by TaTu (mine aren't).
This is the first, and probably last, tech news that I found about on Google News first before Slashdot.
What *legitimiate* activities? For one, being able to play the stupid tunes to my grandkids in 50 years?
Someone came up with a way to hose an apt repository for good....
But is this flat thunking or generic thunking? ;-)
Btw, dumpster diving pays off. Rummaging about derelict crap on the topmost floor of the engineering building at my Uni, yielded a replacement cord for my beloved Model M, extra key caps, and a spanking new Model 50 PS/2 (with a nearly failed disk).
I am pretty green when it comes to stuff like this, but looking at my card history, it seems that whenever you use your CC # or card somewhere, the retailer does not immediately get your money. Instead, the retailer becomes "authorized" to take your money. I noticed the actual withdrawals to happen happen as late as a week post-fact.
Why isn't NTEmacs on your list?
DAT? 48Khz sampling versus 44100Khz sampling rate on your CD? Antique?!
DAT's computer cousin, DDS, if far from obsolete as well.
Exactly.... Phishing is a PEBCAK problem, not an OS problem.
...which is exactly why I carry my card in the wallet, in the inside pocket of my *closed* jacket.
How is saying "no DRM" a poke at Microsoft? It's also a poke at Intel, DMCA, MPAA, RIAA, BSA, w/e. Sheesh. Aren't we defensive today.
Waiting for my L train every day, everytime I see someone with headphones I realize they are listening music from the distinctive-white iPod earbuds. Maybe that's just Chicago.
DI.FM trance channel + XMMS stream recorder plugin or some other way of recording the stream + mp3 player.
Have fun proving that I am tearing apart someone else's binaries, on my own computer, for my own education. If the stuff never leaves my b0x, who is the wiser?
/launches copy of SoftICE and IDA.
That's right.
Good post... but mentioning CNN and FOX as "factual" information was a bit of a stretch =D.
Text becomes shifted all the way right/left, making it impossible to read. Change font size (ctll-mousewheel) fixes it.
while /bin/true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda; done ...and come back after about a week. Satisfaction guaranteed! :-P
Simplistically: When you write a zero over a one, the value doesn't change to 0, but something like 0.1. When you write a 1 over a zero, the value doesn't change to a 1, but something like 0.9.
Thus using special hardware, they could technically recover not only data written previously... but data written onto the disk many times before that.
Real question - what does your ridiculous analogy have to with ME wanting to ensure that my ability to play the music I PAID FOR isn't at the whims of a corporate entity?
Why bother with XML when it's just the NIH syndrome as applied to S-expressions.
I have an ATAPI Samsung CDRW drive that recently started failing while performing OPC. The drive itself just zombifies and makes weird mechanical noises which don't go away when you remove the disk. At that point it doesn't detect media. However, turning the power off to it and back on brings it back to life and makes it useful.